Vandalism at LHHS-neighboring apartments

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Vandalism at LHHS-neighboring apartments

See video at nbcdfw.com.

Police are investigating nine cases of vandalism at the Soho apartments on Skillman at Church near Lake Highlands High School, according to police reports.

Several black residents woke up yesterday morning to find cars in the Soho lot with broken windows, scratched hoods and racial epithets scratched into the paint.

Nothing was missing from inside the cars.

One tenant told the NBC’s Ken Kalthoff that while the damage can be fixed, she can’t erase the fact that her children saw the hateful words scrawled across their car.

Posted by: Christina Hughes Babb on February 21st, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Crime
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I guess what I don’t understand why this is being called just Vandalism this is clearly a hate crime if only black residence were targeted with derogarogatory words on there cars. I mean really….it amazes me when this kind of stuff is down played in the media and brushed off.
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Actually I’ve heard a lot about it on several news reports, so I don’t think it’s being downplayed. You could label it a hate crime—obviously racism was the motive—but generally a “hate crime” by definition implies physical violence or bodily harm to a person, which didn’t happen here.
Intellectualdiot

That’s not true, and such a rigid bailiwick would be almost entirely useless in combating the psychological and sociological effects of racism.

In its yearly “Hate Crime Statistic” compendium, The FBI defines hate crimes as:

“…incidents, offenses, victims, and offenders in reported crimes that were motivated in whole or in part by a bias against the victim’s perceived race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.”

A racially motivated assault can be a hate crime, but a hate crime does not necessarily have to involve an assault.(Apologies for responding to this so late and to you so directly, but I thought it best to clear up this misconception in the event that someone else should read it and believe it to be true.)